Recruit Express Fail!
Today I have the most unfortunate experience of dealing with a cheapsake recruitment agency. The recruitment agency insists that I sign a agreement to pay their S$50 if the company that it is setting me up with offers me the job. Also, there is a clause saying that in the event I were to resign from the job within 90 days, I would have to pay the agency a penalty. It’s the equivalent of 80% of one month of my salary.
I have never heard of such a thing before in my life. This definitely sounds unfair. The agency insists that it’s to defray the costs of finding a replacement if the candidate were to resign within 1 month.
This clause is on the last page and fortunately for me, I saw the clause before filling up the form and I insists that the clause be removed. I am prepared to walk away from it all.
In the end, a compromise was made, and the S$50 is waiver-ed and the 90 days is reduced to 30.
Recruit Express insists that this practice is widespread. However, they can only name “GMP” as the only other recruitment agency which has similar clause in their agreeement.
Recruit Express and GMP already have a bad reputation among my peers. Now I understand why.
This is the last time I am dealing with these companies.
